I Kinda Hate The Internet Now - by Stephen Moore

Once upon a time, the Internet was predicated on user-generated content. The hope was that ordinary people would take advantage of the Web’s low barrier for publishing to post great things, motivated simply by the joy of open communication. But then ad sales came into play.

That business model is still what most of the Internet relies on today. Rev... See more

The New Internet that's in question here probably began to coalesce in the early 2010s. At first, it emerged slowly, stewing in the public discontent that grew out of an increasingly powerful and extractive tech sector. Just as much as it was a professional stance, the reaction was a visceral one. Many users of the internet were beginning to notice

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Elsewhere, you can slowly feel the internet enshittifying everywhere. Google search results are clogged with paid results, and X breaks down frequently. Hell, it feels like our web experience, in general, has gotten worse, not better, over time. Part of this is the push for monetization, but another aspect that drives the internet's enshittificatio... See more